Dangote: MRS filling stations shut amid fresh fuel price increase

Several MRS filling stations successful Abuja person been unopen down for 2 days owed to the unavailability of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS.

Two managers of MRS filling stations successful Abuja, who preferred anonymity, confirmed the improvement to DAILY POST connected Friday evening.

According to the managers, the outlets were closed due to the fact that they had not received substance supplies from Lagos.

“We person been without substance since Thursday. No motortruck has supplied america from Lagos,” 1 of the filling presumption managers told DAILY POST.

Speaking connected the development, the National President of the Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria, Billy Gillis-Harry, exclusively told DAILY POST that immoderate filling stations mightiness present beryllium having trouble accessing overseas speech to procure refined petroleum products.

“The shutdown of immoderate filling stations whitethorn beryllium owed to the dollarisation of the downstream lipid sector. We volition past the situation,” helium told DAILY POST.

This comes arsenic the Dangote Refinery resumed income of refined petroleum products successful dollars.

The improvement follows the suspension of the naira-for-crude woody betw...